Michèle Sigg

Michèle Sigg is the Executive Director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB.org), an open access, collaborative digital project with the mission to document the history of African Christianity. The over 3,000 biographies on the site represent only a fraction of the stories to be collected. She is also Editor of the Journal of African Christian Biography, a quarterly publication available on the website or on Open BU. Her work with the DACB has led her to develop resources and publications for theological education in Africa.

Dr. Sigg’s research focuses on Global and African Christianity, women’s history, mission history, and revival movements. In 2022, she published her first monograph, Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth Century France (Baylor University Press). Her other publications include “Carrying Living Water for the Healing of God’s People: Women Leaders in the Fifohazana Revival and the Reformed Church in Madagascar” (Studies in World Christianity, 2014), “The Dictionary of African Christian Biography and the Story of Ethiopian Christianity” (IBMR, Oct. 2015) and a co-authored article entitled “Indigenous and Vernacular Christianity” in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (2016). More recently, she published a chapter in African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges (Cluster, 2018) entitled “Pointillist History and the Essential Role of Biography in the Dictionary of African Christian Biography” and contributions to “France” in the World Christian Encyclopedia (2020). Book chapters include “Trinity in a Woman’s Soul: Recovering a Women’s Spirituality for Mission in Jan Hus’ Dcerka [The Daughter]”  in Sixteenth-Century Mission: Global Mission in the Age of Reformations (Lexham Press, 2021) and “Friends for Mission: Émilie Mallet and Albertine de Broglie” in Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World (Pickwick Publications, 2021).

Email: dacb@bu.edu